Multimedia:Upload wizard

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The Upload wizard is the new upload interface developed for MediaWiki.

If all mandatory information has been provided, go to step 3a; if mandatory information is missing, go to step 3b

Step 3a: Thank you for sharing these works!

Step 3a

"You're done! Thank you"

You may now use this file, upload another file, add more info, explore your files, explore all/similar files

If it was Alice's first upload, send a welcome e-mail.

Step 3b: Your upload is incomplete

Step 3b

Mandatory information is missing. Files are changed to an "incomplete upload" state (e.g. template, or staging area).

Send an e-mail to Alice to remind her to provide the information. Send another reminder 1 day before the file is deleted.

License selection

Three most common cases are displayed:

people uploading their own work

people uploading someone else's work with their explicit permission

files from a website

They are entirely your own work

Own work

By default, a double license GFDL + CC-by-sa 3.0 is selected and explained in plain English. Users who want to choose other licenses can do so as well; in that case, the most common applicable licenses are displayed. It is also possible to display the full list of applicable licenses, sorted by type. Users can customize in their preferences their default license(s).

The name field is pre-filled with the user's username or their preferred credit name if they provided one.

Their author gave you explicit permission to upload them

Explicit permission from author

Files are in a "missing permission" state (template or built-in indicator)

Fields: author (Carol)'s name & e-mail address ("official"), uploader (Alice)'s name and e-mail address, license (selected by default), work(s) the permission is about

Sends a e-mail to Carol with a unique link to a confirmation page. The confirmation page displays the prepared permission and thumbnails of the pictures. Carol clicks to acknowledge the permission, which is sent to OTRS for human confirmation. The permission sent to OTRS contains a unique link to confirm the permission; this confirmation can only be performed by users in the "Permissions support" MediaWiki group (local or global).

When permission is sent to OTRS, files change to a "permission sent" state.

Bob checks the permission. If it is in order, he clicks the confirmation link and thanks Alice & Carol. The files are changed to a "permission confirmed" state including the reference (e.g. OTRS ticket #) automatically added. If the permission isn't correct, Bob gets back to Carol to sort things out.

Comments:

What if the author doesn't have an e-mail address / if the permission is in a PDF etc.?

For permissions for multiple files: confirm them all at once if the permission is valid, or confirm them manually.

They come from a website

From a website

From a website - Same info for all

By default, we assume that the files have different authors, sources and licenses, simply because at least the sources should be different (we prefer sources precise enough to be unique for each file). For this reason,

However, it is possible to display global fields that will apply to all files.

When a source URL is given, we check if it corresponds to a known source: flickr, panoramio, wikimedia wikis, etc. If available, we use the service API to retrieve as much relevant information as possible (author, license).

More options

Derivative work: should be handled on the original file's page. But what if the file is derived from several files?

→ yes, add it as an option in the upload form and a tool on a file description page.

PD-old

→ ?

Painting/museum?

→ ?

File moved from another Wikimedia project? should be handled by integrated interwiki file move, but this feature won't be available before Fall 2010.

→ yes, add a filter for Wikimedia websites in the "come from a website" section as a temporary measure

Fair use / non-free? shouldn't be needed since we'll have the licensing tutorial

→ no

Free software screenshot? Does this happen often enough to warrant a special case?